Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Your body is the child of your soul.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.